The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-25 00:00:00

RUSSIAN ANGLO -DU ICH FIVE PER CENT. LOAN for £6,000,000, or 7000,000 ft. STCOK. Messrs. BARING BROTHERS and CO., of London, and Messrs. HOPE and CO., of Amsterdam, beg to announce that in conformity with an Ukase of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia and with the instructions ot his Excellency the Minister of Finance, they will RECEIVE APPLICATIONS for the LOAN therein authorized for ,SIX MILLIONS POUNDS STERLING, or Seventy ja Whorls Eight Hundred Thousand Florins of Stock bear inc Five per cent. interest, on the following terms and conditions : Bt.‘ads in due form executed in St. Petersburg will be issuer: in sums of £lOO Sterling or 1,1801, and £B4 Iss. Sterlin).: or I,ooofl , with twenty half -yearly dividend warran ts payable Ist April and Ist October, new style, of each year, at the Counting Houses of Messrs. Baring Bros. & Co.. London, and ot Messrs. Hope Co., Amsterdam, and with an authorization to claim trash dividend warrants without charge, • rho half-yea.ly dividend warrants will be respectively for £1 10s. or on each bond of 1100 or I,lSofl ; and for 13 2s. 61. or r . ,25 on each bond of £84155. or I,oootl. The amount of th, , bonds will be also reimbursed without ch4rtre or deduction, either in London in pounds sterling, or in Amsterdam in floc ins, at the offices of the above men tioned firms, at the choice of the holder. A sinking fund of 1 per cent. on the princip 11 will commence on Ist April, 1866, and be applied annually (together with the interest on all bonds paid off) towards the reimbursement of this loan at par. This reimbursement will thus be completed in 37 years from its commencement, and the bonds thus destined to be paid off at par will be annually drawn by lottery, and the amount can be received on let April of each 3 ear, either in London or Amsterdam. The Bonds will bear interest from Ist April, 1864, and the payments in London will be as follows : On 1100 Bonds — L:0 to be paid two days after allotment to Messrs, Martin and Co., Lombard-street. 10 „ on ISth May. 10 „ on 15th June. I() „ on 13th July. 15 „ on 11th September. 10 „ on 12th October, less the Coupon of £2 108. 10 „ on 14th December. 10 „ on 18th January, 1865. On £B4 15s. Bonds £8 10e. to be paid twMarts after lotment to Messrs n & Co., al Lombard-street. on 18th May. tt on 15th June. on 13,h July. on 14th September. If on 12th Oct„ less the Coupon of £2 2s. 6J, on 14th December. on 18th January, 1855, 8 10s. 8 10s. 8 10s. 12 10s. 8 10s. S 10.. 8 10s. 572 The failure to pay all the instalments forfeits all previous payments. Subscribers may pay up all or any of the instalments under discount of the respective maturities at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. Scrip receipts will be delivered with as little delay as possible, on production of the bankers' receipt of payment of the instalment, and the bonds will be issued with the least possible delay. Applications may be made according to the annexed form, but none will be received atter Friday evening, the 22d inst. _ _ The allotment of the loan will be made as early as pos sible after the close of the subscription list, and in cases where no answer to applications is retained, it will be un derstood that it has not been practicable to make any allotment. London, 18th April, 1864. RUSSIAN ANdLO-DUTCH 5 PER CENT. LOAN OF £6,000,000. To Messrs. BARING BROTHERS, and Co., London, Gentlemen, request that you will allot to the sum of nominal capital in the above Loan, and en gage to accept that amount, or any less amount which may be allotted, and to pay the Instalments thereon in confor mity with your circular of the 18th inst. Name .. Address Date The Bonds are requested as nearly as possible in the fol lowing proportions : X in Bonds of £lOO each. ' fl „ £S4 15s. each• BONN EFS SILKS A LYON.--Every Article of commerce takes its title either from the Inventor or manufacturer, and the more perfect the production the grmater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica• Lion in Enz.land; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex. pos d by the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark may be seen at the end ofeach piece :—" Manutacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., a Lyon o a Injurieux." Wear guaranteed. 0Y AL ITALIAN OPERA, A; Covent-garden. From this time until the end of the season there will be four Opera nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Liaturday. Extra Night. THIS EVENING (MONDAY), April 25, IV 11 be performed Rossini's grand opera, GUGLIELMO TELL. Matilde, Mdile. Marie Batru ; Guglielmo Tell, Signor Graziani ; Jemmy, Madame Rudersdorff; MeLth sl, Signor Polonini ; Walter. Herr Schmid; Ge.sler, Signor Tagliafico ; Un Pcsca tore, Signor Neri- earaldi ; and Arnold°, Signor Wachtel. La Tyroatenne w.ll be danced by Mdlle. Carmine, and 3ldlle. Navarre. Commence at ha'f past Eight. Pit tickerts, 7s. ; amphitheatre eta Is, 108. (ld., 75., atd ss. ; amphitheatre. 2s. Cd. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at tho bo):.-offic- under the portico of the thea.re, which is (Ten from ten to five, and at the principa! musicselltrs' and T HEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, a scene from TWELFTH ;SIGHT. Atter which, will be produced the Grand Stage Revival of Shak4pere's Chr,.:nicle or Historical Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. The cast will include impersonations by those eminent irtists, 31:r. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter Lacy. Mr. A ddiso &lr. Ryder, Mr. Robert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Arr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. v. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M ss Hese Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane Ccm pany. To conclinde with AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore. EA.TRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET.— S'ole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. TIIIS EVENING, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Messrs. Howe, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Compton, Farren, c. ; Mesdames Angel, Lindley, Fitzwilliam, Snow den, AL.7. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farrell, Coe, Sze. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly rower, Hill, Wright, Rogers, ttr.. Commence at 7. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.. T lIIS EVENING, DRA NVING-ROOMS, SECOND FLOOR. AND ATTICS. After which, Shakspore's ROMEO AND JULIET. Ro• mco, Mr. J. Nelson ; Mercutio, Mr. Victim; ; Nurse, Mrs. Marston ; Juliet, Mdlle. Stella Colas. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR : Messrs. Width combe, Garden, Moreland, and miss E. Lavenu. After which, Mr. John Brougham's Original Comedy, PLAYING WITH:FIRE. Messrs. J. Brouzham, Emery, Widdicomb, J. G. Shore • Miss C. Lcc:ercq. Miss Henrade, Miss P. Leciercq ; Mrs. Winstanley. Doors open at 7, commence at halt-past. iNT HIV TfIEATRE-R0 AL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS:EVENING,an apropos Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenso n . . . Af er which, at 8, LEAH : Hiss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billingtun, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Bidington. To conclude with THE AREA. BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, it. Romer, Miss woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. .44 1 14< , i & A A gt 1,1 4 . . 0 q 6 ,4471 e i UAL their Moral Batons on Saturday evening, for the purpose of putting down, as they did in fact put down, a public meeting convened by the working men of London to protest against GARIBALDI'S de• parture! Commence at 7. MI S . S BATEMA N.-L E A H.-THI EVENING and EVERY EVENING —3liss Bateman Brill re-aprear in her great impersonation of the Jewish ma den further notice. In order To give due effect to t is most remarkable suues 4 of the season, eatire;y new scenery by the celebrated ar.ists Messrs. Lansm and ,Sons, .acid Thompson. New drcsscs and appo'ntments have ben prepared for its production.—N. is. In consequence of the nressing and numerous applications at, the Box-ofR e, ar mgements have now been made by which Seats m• y be ob tained a Fortuig,ht in Adv:,n.e. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY PRESERVER. JB Atter which, the I' a ' cony S:ene from ROMEO AND LIET. 3iisees Swanborowh and Wilton. Followed by the Fifth Act of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 'Fig with the Great Burlesque ORPHEUS AND mee 6w Mes.sr_s. Honq,,lNVood, Janies Fenton ; des uoorougn, Aisne Ilion, Hughes, &o. Commence at 7. 11 °YAL ST x , JAMES'S THEATRE, under the -, :ernent WPBST crowded with% • , ER. sticm , Ay ev er „ an ,l. and fashi9p.— The greatly successful new Farce. —Mr, i . 'iv a e r t l i z i e ng.— 1 Ina week of a new Sensation Amonqt the artist n ,nies ot Mr. Be,j ami s engaged will he found the popular Frank :datthews, u r n T lNebster, Mr. Charlei Mathews. Mr. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Robinson,'L. Mr, Asnley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Mrs. Char es Mathew s , Miss A. Cottrell, 3lis; p ati " llPrbert, Mrs Frank Matthews, Miss Wentwortn, and 34 8• V ti • r io i sephs, Miss Patti Josephs, EVERY EVENING, at 7. .../-?" C. railed SHAKE HANDS : m r J .' farce, with a new sensation, J:,i.Clarke, Mr. Ashley. Mr. .Jainstone ; Miss Fanny Pn and miss Patti Josephs. At a quarter before 8, the sumessc Esq., entitled 1 2 1 ti''' l new , Comedy, by 1. Bucking ham, .ti r. I. lis.rles Mathews, Mr. P. SIEVES LINI.ii : Montague; Mrs. Charles 15,1athews, ur n, ~ M r. Ashley, Mr. Miss A. Cottrell, and Mrs. Stirling. 3' rank Matthews, After which, at 10, COOL AS A CIICumB E , n. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROLE . . Mr. Ashley and Miss A. Cottrell. Commence at 7. :SHALL ComPANY'S L COALS. —The LILL CO Direct from their own Collieries. M arquis'.......26s. per ton. Double.. 2ls. per t on. Deepo .... q 5. Nuts... 199. " ............ .....225. Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Virestbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, raddinzton, Best Coke. ........ lss. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. ?TIRE THIRD EDITION OF "T N HE SU,' Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Jan to bad Every iivening: of fir. GLLNIE, Nrws Aorxr, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 2&, 1864. ..~ _._~ The Governments of France and England appear to have been vying with each other on Saturday ! How accurately to define the general character of their emulation with anything like courtly circum locution we find it difficult even to conjecture, And this for the simp:e reason, that it would hardly be other than the literal truth to say that they, the two Governments, the Government of France and the Government of England, simultaneously, but quite independently, contrived to earry (shall we not venture at least to hint the word ?)—absurdity to the height of extravagance. Here in England—as a fitting climax to the extraordinary jumble of confusion resulting from the very ultra-enthusiasm of the late Garibaldi demonstrations—a Public Meeting was actually put down and dispersed by the police, on Saturday evening, upon Primrose Hill: or rather as we ought now, we believe, to call it—Shakspere's Hill. We are not very much in the habit, in Lon don, or for that matter in any part of the country, of having Public Meetings of any kind dispersed. But, at any rate a public meeting of the working men of the Metropolis was on Saturday " put down " as signally and unmistakeably " put down" as if the Moral Baton of the Pelice (an innocent sort of a cousin German to the Moral Dagger of M. NIAZZINI), had, for one delightful interval (and of all appropriate days that could have been selected, upon SHAKSPERE'S Tercentenary !)—as if, we say, the Moral Baton of the Police had, just for once again, as in the good old times, got firmly into the grasp of the very incarnation of Rampant Beadle dom ! Poor old Sir PETER LAURIE'S manes must have been soothed and comforted, one might almost 'ancy with this "putting down" by the Police of a Public Meeting—of all fine days in the year, nay, In the century—upon the tercentenary anniversary of the Birth of SHAKSPERE! Sa much for Govern mental doings here in London. Now, for the companion doings over yonder in Paris —and there, too, though occurring quite irrespectively of our own—doings having reference directly with the proposed celebration of SHAKSPERE'S Tercen tenary. Don't we all know what precisely was the nature of those proceedings ? Can we possibly relate them with anything like gravity ? They amounted, literally, to the attempted suppression of " Hamlet"—nay, of SHAKSPERS himself, meaning his memory, or the commemoration of it. Some thing really and truly about equivalent to CANUTE'S mandate to the sea-tide—a sort of an imperial ukase against the Common Air we breathe, or against the gleam of the Daylight. It is true the prohibition of an intended Shaksperian Demonstration at Paris was withdrawn by one of those second thoughts proverbially said to be " the best"—meaning (more grammatically to express it) " the better." Too late, however, came the withdrawal, it would seem, for the intending celebrators of SHAKSPERE'S memory were too bitterly huffed by the previous prohibition of their festivities I For, at any rate, one way of another, they appear to have come to nothing, or, as the popular idiom has it, they appear to have come to grief. Nevertheless, if it is asked what sort of thing it was the Imperial authorities were dreading—the answer comes patly enough, and, be it said also, absurdly enough, through the columns of the Journal des Debats, wherein appears a letter about SHAK SPERE, addressed to the prohibited French meeting by M. VICTOR HUGO. A document that for its ultra-hyperbolical extravagance has hardly ever, we shoald fancy, been surpassed, even in the land sacred to pretty tall talk ing, the favoured land, that is to say, of Stump Oratory, Soft Sawder, and Bunkum I VICTOR HUGO'S preposterous letter we give, as translated from the original in tho Di:bats, in another part of our impression of this evening. And it is this sort of thing that the Imperial authorities, over at Paris; were actually for a while bent upon sup pressing I Remembering that prohibition—at any rate for the time being—there in Paris : and re membering, on the part of our own Government— the putting down by the Moral Baton of the Police on Saturday evening of a Public Meeting of the Working Classes upon Shakspere Hill, late Primrose Hill—were we not justified in hinting, at the outset of these remarks, that the Two Governments were vieiog with each other? And that they were doing so at the close of last week in a manner that, "not to put too fine a point upon it," was very much, indeed, like—absurdity carried to the height of extravagance ? As to the public meeting putdown by the police, here in London, o❑ Saturday—it had reference, as we all know, not to SHARSPERE, but to the spiriting away of GARIBALDI all of a sudden ! The spiriting away of GARIBALDI thus all of a sudden—at the instance of several of his more officious friends, conspicuous among them one of the principal members of her MAJESTY'S Government ! Occurring as this abrupt modifica tion of all GARIBALDI'S plans had done, quite un expectedly, just when the Deno-German Conference was trying to begin its sittings—trying to, strange to say, quite ineffectually, until GARIBALDI had been summarily hustled out of the way—the working men of London could not for the life of them manage to swallow very readily the assertion that GARIBALDI was constrained to go away solely by reason of the precarious state of his health. The working men of London being all the more reluctant to accept that plea as one suffi ciently to accounting for so very sudden and startling a transformation of all previously existing arrange ments—seeing GARIBALDI, as they did, in the midst of them—lame to be sure by reason of his bullet wound, but otherwise—the very picture of health, lookiug in fact in every line of . his bronzed, hand. ome face just as well as possible. However—the working men of London must at length abandon all doubts o: this kind upon the subject. They must recognise altogether thefallacy of mere appearances. They must understand, however reluctantly, that there could have been no help for it—that GARI BALDI'S hurried withdrawal from London, and as soon after as possible from England, was just a matter of life and death for him, admitting of no alternative, of no hesitation whatever. The most eminent 'professional authority in England has at length given the Reason Why—GARIBALDI had A BOIL ON HIS /atm ! That —as a reason—surely is perfectly conclusive! No wonder--knowing t. hat GARIBALDI HAD A BOIL ON HIS ARM — no wonder, we pay, that so much alarm for his health should have been excited ! No wonder Mr. GLADSTONE and others urgently advised Ns imme diate deputue! No wonder the Police dr„rr forth Perhaps in no part of our foreign policy is it more difficult to rct wisely and well than in our dealings with uncivilised nations. Certainly the present occupants of the Treasury benches have not found it very easy to steer safely through the com plications of European poll' ies, while the experience of a past generation proves that it is often a dan gerous and delicate task to legislate for our colonies. Our conduct in both these quarters, too, may pro duce effects of more immediate importance by forming the plans of European war, or by provoke ing the colonies to independent action, but in regard to barbaric or semi-civilised countries we have less of assured principle to guide our actions,we have to deal with men whose habits of life, whose tone of thought, and whose sense of justice and propriety are so different from our own that it is frequently a question how far community in their proceedings is justifiable, how far inaction and indifference are prudent. The much talked of policy of non-inter vention is difficult of application when English lives are jeopardised, and English property endangered, although for the honour of our nation and the duty we owe to our own position, we are bound scrupu lously to avoid any participation in those acts which are only too common in Eastern warfare, and which accord better with the Chinese code of morals than with our own. The English Government are placed in a somewhat awkward position by the recent events in China. The unsatisfactory termination of the affair of the Anglo-Chinese fleet under the command of Captain SIIERARD OSBORN was fol lowed so quickly by the disgraceful conduct of the Futai at Soochow, that the public feeling was strongly excited against the Imperialists and their Government. It was felt that English aid was not being treated with proper respect w hen it was notori ous that the recent successes of the Imperial cause were entirely owing to the efforts of the foreign contingent. Under these circumstances, Mr. LID DELL, onFriday evening, called the attention of the House of Commons to the state of our relations with China, and moved a resolution deprecating any further interference on our part in the civil war now raging is that country as impolitic and unneces sary. he hon. member, in support of his motion, entered into a history of the last few years, object ing to the assistance, material and otherwise, afforded by this country to the Imperialists, declar ing that we were in a great measure answerable for the continuation of the war, and predicting future perplexities of a very serious nature if the present course were pursued. On the other hand Mr. LAYARD contended that the result of the policy hitherto followed had been an enormous increase of our trade with China; that the accounts of tortures and massacres had been greatly overdrawn; that arms had been taken up to protect British inte rests; and that Major GORDON had done perfectly right in returning to the service of the Futai, and thereby preventing the capture of Shanghae. The truth of the case seems to be somewhere between these two opposing extremes, and we cannot but regret that Mr. LAYARD should thus have given official sanction to Major GORDON'S retention of his post. The protection of the English trading com munity and commercial interests, the maintenance of the treaty, and the opening of the ports, are very different things from the energetic participation in the Imperialist cause which bas been hitherto our share. Mr. LAYARD'S reply to Mr. LIDDELL'S accusations, although containing much sound sense and plain fact, certainly contrived to mix up I dlfferent things ; and it is impossib'c to say to what lengths the Imperialists will go when English influence has lost its power in ebr , -Uut, i , their treachery and barbarity. Granted that the massa sacre at Soochow has been greatly overrated—Mr. LAYARD cannot deny the facts of the case, and the sword of an English officer should have been no longer drawn under a commander who had been guilty of a direct breach of faith, and had made his plighted word a snare to entrap the too credulous enemy. It is highly improbable that the Taepings would have attacked the British residents in Shanghae, they would have feared the conse quences of such a rash proceeding ; but if they had they have not hitherto proved so invincible as to be regarded with abjttct terror. Captain OSBORN, by a resolute adherence to th© stipula tions of his original engagemc nt which Mr. LIDDELL altogether mieconstrued, saved himself from a posi tion so awkward and unsatisfactory that we appre hend Major GORDON will, before long, deplore his retention of it. If the protection of existing British interests in China be the real and only aim of our Government, let it be kept to in all straight forwardness and simplicity. It is idle to say that such has hitherto4been the solitary aim, since the safety of Shanghae did not necessitate the cap ture of Soochow. It will not be difficult to draw a lino between guarding British life and property from assault of any kind, and supply the Im perialist forces with material and leaders. The opportunity for making such a change has certainly been afforded by the conduct of the Futai towards Major GORDON, and by the breaking off of the engagement with Captain OSBORN. Much must, of course, be left to the discretion of our officials in those distant quarters, but if the rule be laid down for their guidance that we are to preserve our own from injury of any kind, and to keep aloot from any local struggle, toe results would probably be better and more satisfactory than in the present entangled and perplexing condition of affairs. It is very satisfactory to find that the proposal of Lord DERBY, as to the introduction of " Working Class Trains," has been agreed to. While according due credit to the Government for their discernment and willingness to forward this scheme, the chief merit of the proposal must rest with the noble earl who has devoted so mach time and taken so much pains with the scheme. It is one which it is in every sense of the word desirable to essay, and even if it should not be found so effective in practice as it is sometimes hoped, still a partial or moderate success will be a great achievement, and an inesti mable boon. Lord DERBY explained the reasons for propounding the plan, and stated the weighty reasons which called for the remedy he suggested. Certainly they are urgent ones, and though some may deem it wise to decry them, it does not follow that the fallacies they pretend to discover are at all apparent, because there is a certain class of persons who must always put some impediment in the way of all improvements. The very notion of a change is enough to put them on the alert, and anything like a fundamental alteration in the arrangements which concern the lower orders sets them quite in a state of commotion. But these lovers of the stand still policy should reflect that in the ceaseless changes which occur around us great inconvenience is necessarily experienced by the working classes, and evils, the extent and magnitude of which the y wealt h y leapt cans qualified contemplate, are borne by those to endure the bu r d en , or to e a s c ar scarcely sustain the 1055 , ,, , 5. To remedy the deficiencies thus occasioned in the comforts and conveniences of the ' working classes by the immense increase of metro politan railways, it was absolutely necessary that something should be done at once. The idea of running cheap trains night and morning is an ad mirable one, and must in a great measure mitigate the evil, and prove a vast advantage to all who now suffer so dreadfully from the effects of over-crowd ing and its attendant miseries. L)rd DERBY has besides the merit of having been the first to bring this question of the railways affecting the comfort of the working classes before Parliament some years ago. It was then paid very little atten tion to, and many, indeed, averred that the noble earl was making a great deaf of unnecessary fuss about the matter. These wiseacres must ere this, however, have disproved their aertions, and seen reason to modify their expressions. Time and experience have more than borne out the declara. tions, and wrified the prophecies of the noble earl, and where units complained, tens of hundreds now murmur loudly against the grievous infraction of their social right©, and the crud addition to their inevitable troubles that have been brought about by the development and spread o f science in every , the busy, the idle, the department. To the rich foreigner, the traveller, and mony others, all these increased means of communication serve to increase their wealth, add to their amusement, extend their employments, accelerate their arrangements, and impart increased excitement to their progress. To the poor they have added another burden to tic load under which they had before nearly sunk, it would never do to let it be arid, that while the fame of our mechanical exploits excited the wonder of the world, the first result vas that our toiling artisans and our striving pcor in all directions should droop and wither away under the inflictions imposed upon them. Vain wll be our boast that our capital is the emporium of the world, and affords more speedy and numerous means of intercommuni cation than any other city, if these means of transit have brought in their progress the means of spread. ing disease end death among the lives of industry, and the results of poverty. Those hapless victims who would inevitably succumb to the insidious attacks of fever and pestilence, "by the wayside fall and perish, weary of the march of life," would be the accusers who would rise up in judgment against the selfishness and supineness of modern reformers and regenerators, and blight all the glory of their enterprise at its outset. Of course, there will be many difficulties in the way of carrying out all the details of this, or any uther similar measure of such an aggregate:extent ; but it is always something very important to have made a start in the right direction, and the French proverb ce West que le premier pas qui coute is true in this as in many minor instances. It must be a great relief to all the more intelligent and more right feeling of the classes referred to to know that they stand a chance of possessing room to move in, and that their families may grow up in the habits of order and prosperity which cannot be obtained in cramped localities, also they will enjoy a larger share of the crowning gift of health, which is of more value than wealth to the rich, but is to the poor a sheet anchor of security. The Earl of SHAFTES BURY suggested that two trains should be run every morning and evening to obviate inconve• nience and ensure security in case of hindrance or accident. It is seldom that a proposal affecting entirely the interests of the working classes comes before Parliament, and it is a matter of rejoicing that it should have been met in a right spirit and accorded that attention which all things that con cern the welfare of the great body of the people should receive at the hands of the Legislature. The W eather—Sun Office, April 25, 1864. THERMOMETER. 61 This !lay at Two o'clock Barometer-30.06. Wind—N.; moderate breeze, and very fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tais DA'7.—Morning, 4h. 2m.—Afternoon., 4h. 20m. fu-moßaow.-Moraing, 4h. 40m.—Afternoon, sh. Om. TIM SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1864. THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Verdi's favourite opera, " Un Ballo in 'Maschere," after a two years' absence from the boards of Ceaeut-gardee, was performed anew there on Saturday. Our remarks upon the presemt cast of this least ambitious, though, in some respects, most charming, among Verdi's popular 'yrical dramas, must to-day be unavoidably postponed. To morrow the same opera will be repeated. To-night the repeti tion of Rossini's "Guglielmo Tell" is the attraction. Another repetition, that of Donizotti's " La Favorite," is the attraction to the Royal Italian set apart for Thursday. While, for Saturday, Mr. Gye announces on his programme the performance, for the first time this season, of Meyerbeer's Grand opera of " Le Prophete," with Madlle. Destinn as Fides, and Signor Wachtel as Jean of Leyden. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, at tended by Major Elphinstone and Captain Dorsally, honoured the performances with his presence on Tuesday last. Tlie:r Royal High ceases the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklen burg Strelitz and the Princess ilary, attended by the Countess of Westmoreland, Colonel Clifton, and the Baron Plasson, were present on Thursday. Amongst the fashionable company attending the performances during the week have been the Prince Louis lßonaparte, his Excellency the Ambassador of France, his Excellency the Austrian Am bassador, and the Countess Appcnyi, his Excellency the Italian Minister, the Duke and Duchess of Wel lington, the Duke of Granada, tle Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Hanoveriin Charge d'Affaires and the Baroness Blotne, the Marquis of Har tington, Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Hastings, the Marchioness of Dawnshire and Lady Alice Hill, the M arquis an d M a rchioness of Bath, the Marquis of Sligc, the March ioness of Ely and Lady Mari an L oftus, t h e Countess of Bradford, the Countess o f Hariegton and Lad y Geraldine Stanhope, th e E ar l an d C o untess of West morland and Lady az- E m il l Dudley, the Earl Granvill e , th e Earl of Uxbridge , the Countess of Fite and a' L i a lj a g y Bc :a t n e' Anne Duff, Earl of Duff, the Countess of Mount Charles, the Earl and Countess of Bective, Viscountess Newry and Miss Lieeunatn, Viscount and Viscountess Hoaneedale, Viscount Crantourne, Viscount Sudley, Viscount and Via countess Sidney, Viscount Ranelagh, the Lord Chief Justice of England, L a d y Annaly and the Hon. Miss White, Lady de Bl aqu i e re, Lord E. Th y nne, Lady Agnes Murray, L a dy Clargeo s La d y Alfred Churchill, Lord. E. St. M aur , Lord and L ad y Blan tyre, Lady E. Hasti ngs , M r , c ad Lady Owendoline Petro, Lacy A. Wentworth and Miss Wentworth, Lady Panmure and Mr. Power, Captain and Lady Anne Sherson, Hon. Captain Eclvvardes, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. B es t, H on . Henry Effot, Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald an d M rs . Macdon ald and the Hon. Miss Bl a k e , H on . °L a cey Toler , Hon, Richard Bethell and Mi ss B et h e ll, Hon. Mrs , C lau g hton, Major the H on , J. an d M rs . Anson, Ho n. Frederick Leveson Gower, M.P,, Colonel L o y d Lindsay and the Hon, M rs . L o yd Lindsay, Ho n. Mr. S p rin g Rice, Hon. R. Meade, Hon. Mrs. Murray, Hon. Charles Barrington, Sir James and Lady Colville, Sir John and Lady Simeon, Sir James and Lady Montgomery, Sir William Jolliffa and the Misses Jolliffe, Sir William Scott and Miss Scott, Sir Henry Cotterell, Sir John and Lady Fisher, Sir Claud Scott and Miss Scott, Sir J. Mackenzie, Sir F. R. Sandford, Admiral Ryder Barto9, Colonel Grant, Colonel Farquharsoa of Irivercauld, Colonel Aircy, Captain and Mrs. Brand, Colonel Maclean, Colonel Minchin, Captain and Miss Stracey, Captain Ber keley, Captain Fludyer, Captain Buckley, Colonel and Mrs. Mac George, Captain Wombwell,, Major Gage, 8.7 c. MR. ALFRED WIGAN has been playing Hamlet at Liverpool. MR. CHARLES KEAN'S HEALTEI, according to the latest accounts, is re-established, but he will not imme diately return to England, as had been announced. THE THREE-ACT PLAY, "Mol," in which M. Regnier is greatly commended by those who should know, is having a certain vogue at the Theatre Francais. M. FREDERIC LEMAITRE, whom we Imagined to have quitted the stage, has reappeared at L'Ambigu Comique in a tivo•act play, by I 4 l'louvier, "Le Comie de Saulles.l! LATEST INTELLIGENCE, LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the North American.) NEW YORK, APRIL 9, AFTERNOON. The army of the Potomac is preparing for an early forward movement. All surplus baggage has been sent to the rear, and furloughs have been stopped. Money tight. Gold 70:- premium. Exchange on London 1861. Stocks opened firm to-day, but have since become very heavy. New York Centrals 1431. Illinois 1491. Erie 1261. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland 740. Breadstuff advancing. Petroleum very firm. Crude 351. Refined 52 to 521. QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 24. The Royal mill steamship Africa, from Boston on the 13th and Halifax on the 15th, arrived at Queenstown at 11.30 a.m. today (Sunday). She brings 92 passengers and 10,540 dole. in specie. The Africa landed 76 sacks of mails and four passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 11.40 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, APRIL 12, EVENING. GenEril Meade has moved his head-quarters to Culpepper. The army of the Potomac has been largely rein- orced. A destructive storm has interrupted the commu nication between Washington and the army of the Potomac, delaying the military operations of the Federal armies. Active preparations are being made for a cams paign in the south-west. General Forrest has been reinforced. It is re ported that he is about to cross the Tennessee river. General Johnston is being largely reinforced from Polk's and Beauregard's armies. The Confederates have made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the flag-ship Minnesota, off Newport. The Minnesota was seriously damaged. An exciting debate has taken place in the House of Representatives, concerning a resolution which had been introduced for expelling Mr. Long, of Ohio, and Mr. Harris, of Maryland—the former for expressing a disbelief in the practicability of quel ling the rebellion, and urging the recognition of the South—the latter for expressing a hope that the Federal armies would be unsuccessful in their efforts to conquer the South. The steamers Sumter and Hattebrook have been captured. Money easy. Gold opened yesterday at 1701, but has risen since to 174/, its present quotation. Exchange on London—Bankers' bills, 191. There is great spEculative excitement in Stocks, which have risen and are still advancing. New York Centrals, 1434, Illinois Centrals 149/, Erie 1264, Six per Cent. U.S. Bonds 114/. Cotton steady; Middling Upland 77c. NEW YORK, APRIL 13 (Morning). After the wain body of the Federals had left Alexandra, Louisiana, the Confederates in heavy force attacked the fortifications, but were opposed by four Federal regim(nts. The loss was severe on both sides. The Federal cavalry have occupied Eagle Pass, Texas, 400 miles above Brownsville. The sinking of ;the Confederate ram Tennessee, off Mobile, is denied. The Etna has arrived out. Money easy. Gold, 174 t. NEW YOEK, April 14, Morning. Forrest's forces demanded yesterday the surren der of Fort Halleck, Columbus, Kentucky, and of Fort Pillow, which wa3 refused. Reinforcements have reached Columbus, where fighting continues. In the Senate the committee upon foreign affairs, in accordance with the wishes of the Administra tion, has deferred to act upon the resolution of the House of Representatives respecting the French occupation of Mexico. The matter is indefinitely postponed. Money easy. There has been great excitement in gold siace yesterday. Its price has risen, under symptoms of a panic, to 185. NEW YORK, APRIL 14 (Evening). Money tighter. Gold yesterday reached 178. The market was greatly agitated this morning with symptoms of a currency panic, and the price of gold rose to 189, It has since receded with violent fiuc. taations to 1761. Exahange on London, Bankers' bills, 1991. Stocks heavy. New York Centrals, 14l ; Illinois, 1414 ; Erie, 1231; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 115 i. Cotton very firm— Middling Upland, 80 to 801 c. Flour, wheat, corn, and provisions advancing, Coffee, sugar, and molasses very firm. Petroleum advancing. Crude, 42 ; refined, 65c to 70c. The advance in gold has unsettled all business. The Asia has *rived at Halifax. MEXICO. NEW - YORK, APRIL 13 (Morning), Advices received from Mexico, via New Orleans, state that in the French march on Matamoras a fight occurred, in which the French were victorious. Three French frigates were off Matamoras, pre- paring to cross the bar. The City of Manchester, from New York on the 9th inst., arrived at Qat enstown at 7.30. She brings 131 passengers, and 276,270 dole, in specie. She landed ten seeks of mails and twelve passen gers, and proceeded at 7.40 a.m. Her news has been anticipated. THE CONFERENCE. The following is a correct list of the Plenipoten. tiaries to the Conference on the Dano.Germsn question, which met to-day : England—Earl Russell and Lord Clarendon. France—Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, Austria—Count Apponyi and Privy Councillor Biegeleben. Prussia—Count Bernstorff and Privy Councillor Balan, formerly Ambassador at Copenhagen. The German Confederation-112. de Beust, Saxon Minister. Russia—Baron Brunow and Councillor Ewers. Sweden—General Wachtmeister. Denmark—Baron de Bille, M. Quaade (the Minister), and Councillor Krieger. BERLIN, APRIL 25. AdvicEs from St. Petersburg state that it is not likely that Russia will send a second plenipoten tiary to • the London Conference. Should, how ever. the Conferences be Clanged to a general Con gress, Prince Gortschakoff, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, would proceed to London. The Russian Minister at Turin, Count Stackle berg, has obtained leave of absence for two months. LISBON, APRIL (11.20 a.m.) The Australian screw steamer, 2 steam frigates, and 1 ironclad frigate have arrived here. The tobacco question is being discussed by the House of Peers BUCHAREST, APRIL 24. The Chamber of Deputies has passed a resolution that in future the Ministers are to take the oath of allegiance to the people, and not to the Prince. FRANCE. The Debats publishes the following letter from Victor Hugo to the committee of the French festival It was to have been read at the prohibited French meeting : "Hauteville House, April 18. " Gentlemen,—lt seems to me that lam returning to France. To feel myself among you is almost like being there. You call me, and my soul hastens to your call. In glorifying Shakspere, you, French men, are giving en admirable example. You place Shakspere on a level with your own national illus trating; you make him fraternise with Moliere, whom you associate with him, and with Voltaire whom you bring back to him. At the moment when England confers the freedom of the City of London on Garibaldi, you confer on Shakspere the freedom of the republic of letters. Shakespere, in fact, belongs to you. You like everything in him, and you like him first because he is a man. you crown in him the player who has suffered ; the philosopher who has struggled, the poet who has conquered. You acclamations honour the strong will of his life, the power of his genius, the con scientiousness of his art, the human reality of his stage. You are right, it is just to do so. Civilisa tion applauds this noble festival. You are poets glorifying poetry, thinkers glorifying philosophy artists glorifying art. But you are also something besides—you represent France greeting ',England. It is the noble embrace of sisters, of the land of Vincent de Paul and the land of Wilberforce, of Paris, the headquarters of equality, and Landon the capital of freedom. From that embrace an ex change will arise. One will give the other what it has. To honour England in her great man, in the name of France, is great; you do more— you do away with geographical limits—neither French nor English, you are the brethren of a genius, and you honour him. You honour this very globe, you honour the earth which on this day three hundred years witnessed the birth of Shakepere ; you consecrate the sublime principle of the übiquity of minds, whence springs the unity of civilisation ; you extirpate selfishness from the heart of nationalities. Corneille does not belong to us, nor Milton to them—they are common property. The whole world is the fatherland of intelligence. You take genius, no matter whence it comes, to give it to all nations; by removing the barrier that separates poets you destroy that which divides men, and by the amalgamation of glory you commence the obliteration of frontiers. Holy pro miscuity—this is a great day. Homer, Dante, Shakspere, Moliere, Voltaire, undivided—the taking possession of these great men by the whole of man kind—the community of masterpieces. Such is the first step; the rest will follow. " That is the work you are inaugurating—a work cosmopolitan, human, binding, fraternal, unfettered by the trammels of nationality, superior to local delimitations; magni6cent adoption of Europe by France, and of the whole world by Europe. From a fete like this civilisation must proceed. To pre side at this memorable meeting you could have cnosen persons of the highest renown ; illustrious and popular names abound amongst you ; your list of guests is sparkling with them; the brightest personifications of art, of the drama, history, poetry, philosophy, and eloquence, are grouped in this solemnity around Shakapere's pedestal ; but you doubtless imagined that in order to impart to the celebration of this anniversary its character peculiarly extern—in order that the manifestation should be independeet of anything like frontier, you required for President a man placed nirnself in that exceptional condition—a Frenchman out of France—at the same time absent and present—with his foot in England and hia heart in Paris—a sort of connecting link, placed both at a distance and adjacent, to join together hand in hand the two august nations, It so happened that by an arrangement of destiny that position was mine, and the proud choice that you have made of ma I owe to that happy chance. I return you my thanks for that Let, and I propose to you this toast —" To Shakspere and England. To the definitive Success of the great Men of Intelligence and to the Communion of Nations in Progress and Works of Imagination." BOURSE, April 23.—The market has been rather heavy, and prices show a slight decline, Threes, for the Account, being now at 67f. 15c. Mobilier last quoted at 1,220 f. Little doing in Railway Shares, but prices in general without materia alteration. The market c 41 per Cents 94 25 Do, ead month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 05 Credit Mobilier....l2oo Do, end m0nth....1200 losed as follows : Italian Loan 6B 65 Do. end month 6B 55 New ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes -- Rome Debt Deferred VAT% Cash. Account. 896 892 50 980 975 952 50 .. 95U 895 607 50 .. 670 503 75 482 50 .. 483 75 3 7 5 370 417 50 417 50 653 75 .. 556 25 492 50 .. 490 577 50 673 75 Bank Shares 3370 Credit Foncior 1 .280 Roman 76 HAIL' Orleans ~ Northern Lyons and Meditarranean New ditto Southern .. Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian LOW bard North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona GENERAL GARIBALDI, On Saturday General Garibaldi remained the guest of the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland at her grace's exquisite villa Cliefden House. As a matter of course, however, the general has not re mained in seclusion during his brief stay, but has been seeing and being seen almost as much as when in the metropolis. On Saturday, true to his simple life and island habits, he was up with the dawn strolling about the beautiful grounds of Cliefden. At 11 o'clock he left the house in a carriage and four, accompanied by the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland and the Duchess of Argyll, and pro ceeded by way of Slough to inspect the royal model farm at Windsor. In the course of his drive he was everywhere enthusiastically received. Upon reach ing the farm he was received by Mr. Tait, the bailiff of the Home Farm, who showed the visitors over the royal dairy. Garibaldi then paid a visit to the Flemish Farm, where Mr. Brebner was in attendance, and showed him among the cattle a yoang bull, two years old, which was christened " Garibaldi" some two years ago. Before the visit had concluded a number of farmers and others arrived on the field, and if the illustrious visitor had pro longed his stay for an hour or so more the whole town of Windsor and the adjacent villages would have flocked to the scene. A number of the far mers offered to present General Garibaldi with a steam plough as a token of their recognition of his great merits. This offer was made through Mr. Stevens, but the General naïvely remarked, while thanking his warm-hearted admirers, that his farm only consisted of about 25 acres, ane that the rest of the island of Caprera was nothing better than barren rock and unproductive mountain, so that al steam plough, much as he admired its operations, would be of little or no value to himself. He courteously and kindly refused the donation, and expressed his thanks with the warmest feeling of gratitude. He reached Cliefden on his return about half-past 2 o'clock. A luncheon was then served, at which 30 visitors were present. In the afternoon Garibaldi and a party of gentlemen went out in boats on the Thames, where they spent a consider able time. Garibaldi expressed himself delighted with the surrounding scenery, and especially with the picturesque appearance of Cliefden from the river. In the evening the visitors, most of whom stay till Garibaldi takes his departure to-day, were entertained at dinner by the Duchess Dowager. Garibaldi left Slough this morning by the 9.45 a.m. train for Cornwall, where he will spend the evening with Col. Peard at Penquite. This country seat is close to the pi c t uresque bay of Looe, one of those charming i n d en t s so f r equently met on the Cornish coast. I n this bay the Duke at Sutherland's steam yacht Ondine is already wait ing the arrival of her illustrious passenger. Gari baldi embarks on board the Ondine at 8 o'clock to morrow morning, and at 9 will be steaming Caial to Capers, THE HEALTH OF GENERAL GARIBALDI. Stafford-house, April 24. The Duke of Sutherland presents his compli ments to the editor of The Sun, and begs to enclose a letter received last evening tram Mr. Fergussou respecting the health of General Garibaldi :-- 16, George..square, Hanover-square W., April 23. My Lord Duke,—At Mr. Seely's special request I saw: General Garibaldi, at Stafford-house, within a few hours of his departure from London. The General declared himself as well as he had ever been since he arrived in England, but on close inquiry adraitted fatigue, both of body and brain. My impression was that he looked jaded and worn, The fatigue associated with his receptions in Lona° ll might readily have accounted for this, but there was another reason equally urgent. Your grace will be sorry to learn that he has latterly suffered from boils, and he had two en his left forearm, one of which alone might have wad e another man give up all his ordinary occupations for a awe' I think it due to your grace, to Mr. Seely, and others who ad vised with the General regarding his intended pro vincial movements, that you should be made acquainted with this, and I hope that your grace will consider it as e proof that it is not without good reason that I presumed to intrude my first opinion on a subject which was so full of interest to every one. I have the honour to be your grace's most obedient ser vant, W. FERGUSON'. To his Grace the Duke of Sutherland. The following telegrams have been received by the Lord Mayor : NAPLES, April 24. The Neapolitans, by a resolution of a general meeting, send to the noble English people their sentiments of grati tude for the splendid reception given to Garibaldi. President, RicciA.RDli (FROM THE MAYOR OF CEFALO.) This municipality offers to the English people its sincere thanks end the expression of its deep gratitude for the high honours shown to Garibaldi, which are proofs of their affection for Italy. MICHELE GIUSEPPE . (FROM ATELLINO.) I n you we thank generous England for the reception given to General Garibaldi. The honorary president of this operative society tenders its thanks for the sympathy elo w , n , by Great Britain, which has always taken the lead of a" civilised nations in the path of social progress. GAETANO MAGLIO. The Society of Painters in Water Colours, (Dm DAY.) The sixtieth annual exhibition of this distill' guished and popular institution has, this day, be e° opened to public view—the private view havi n g enabled us to survey the collection there for th e present season on Saturday afternoon. The Gellert/ as usual, contains from 300 to 400 water colour dray,' ings, contributed by exhibitors as various in style 0 is merit. Although we are precluded from entering, in our impression of this evening into any very de* tails dexamination of the works of art here exhibited, we would at once pronounce the collection of pictures for the present as rather above then below th e average of the noble collections adorning the wel ls of the same institution daring the last dozen Yes ° or more. While saying this, however, we do lo t for an instant regard the present collection as, W ilt the whole, on a par with its immediate predecessor' But then, as we took occasion to rem last year, the collection for 1863 was, to o ur thinking, in a very rare and peculiar manner, el . ceptional. It was signally and exceptionally gee d ; insomuch that it is in no degree depreciatory the general collection to remark, as we ha ve done, that, as compared with that collection' that as contrasted with that exceptional ee l* lection, the Exhibition of 1864 is hardly up to the mark—the highest high water level of 186 31 Nevertheless, though yielding, and no wonder, the palm to its immediate predecessor, the collet . Lion for the present season is, as before observed' above rather than below the average of the exhibitions in this favourite gallery at No. 5, Pall-Mall East' during the last dozen years or more. On crossing the threshhold of it, we are painfully reminded of great, indeed an irreparable, loss to this Old Society of Water Colourists, the reminder coming to us from Alexander Munro's admirable white marble bust of the late William Hunt, the great wate r colourist. And there glancing radiantly out upon us' from the four screens, are the last exquisite little gems ofmasterpieces from his wonderful brush—mor e of those epples that, as we look at them, we are foie to peel and munch—grapes that seem only to requir e the pressure of a finger to spurt with juice -cc peaches that would tempt a bee—wild roses, the delicate leaves of which one could almost fancy one's very breathing must flutter. Distributed at uncertain intervals, too, round the wan e of the gallery, the visitor recognises, at 5 glance, as usual, many another old fo il ` liar favourite—these other popular favourites, however, being yet, happily, in the land of the living. Frederick Tayler with his open air Wir t ? —Joseph Nash with his domestic and arcitectura interiors—Maria Harrison and Valentine Barthel () ; mew vieing with each other with flowers, wild 6 °' cultivated, here the primrose, here the hollyheels Britten Willis with his Cuyp-like cattle pieces - cc"' Evans of Eton, and John Gilbert of Everywhere tisli proving themselves to be inexhaustible ! Tbd last mentioned in 20 has an animated an glowing representation of the "Battle of the Boyne." H. P. Riviere has a pretty little gree f ' v u bit of comicality in 36, " The Stray Kitten." Burne Jones, though rather oddly, very charmillWf pourtrays, in a tall pre-Raphealite picture WI under an exceedingly new aspect, our immenaer le heroine of the kitchen, " Cinderella." Comm end us to Alfred Fripp's (72) a " Piping SheP h . el'd, Boy" as affording us one of the love liest tastes of fresh air and specimens of country life in the whole collection. The purchaser of e picture will have a perennial charm hanging uP e f his house-wall in the very look out of the ey es e t that Piping Shepherd Boy of Fripp's ! There is the head of the gallery, in 18, " Hellelil and g il t d ir e brand," a most effective delineation by F. ; Burton, (one of our master water-colourists), o ' . 0 Knight of old in battle harness meeting ladyelove upon the spiral turret staircase, an t . kissing her sleeve tenderly as they pass each o tile —one of these sleeves the knights of old used to tie o their helmets before charging, lance in rest, throug; the dust and blood of the tourney ! Britten W -1111 . gives us one of his htppiest effees in 115 .4 OP° ing Day, from a scene in Sussex,"—with, of oell re . e : j meditative cattle most artistically groupe d l er the foreground. Bran white's bran white Wi nt to Scenes are as refrigerating as ever merely r glance at. One of his chief successes this Y e . il r , being 111, " Winter Scene, Foggy morning." 331 , 6 ket Foster, who has plenty of charming picf r r t scattered about the rcom, here " The Sand v e * e ' l f there "The Wooden Bridge" has surpassed in 125, "Flying a Kite." Carl Haag's one sketches fail, even yet, to tire us, and the 0115, :saaniddscianpes.theßirefowrehe visitorto of Nveasitetl3l ay t Italian Landscapes. Ln gallery he ought to take one l ook at 317, on t Third Screen, namely, F. Wa lker ' s charming ,1113_ leaves lineation of a scene from the late Mr. ThackeraY "Philip." Philip—it is the very Philip 111. ° 3°1 _, f , —in the Pew, with the children grouped about The attendance at the private view on Satrds; was, if that be possible, more than ever, crovided* The Oxford and Canterbury Music Itall°' Both these halls are holding the tercententary s At pe t r h e i f n o c r l m u d e n i g s t r o a c n k d e, s v ocagl Musicd i display a t c o b e words th,n tion of his '` Songs," enshrined in fitting mus ic. " Two Gentlemen of Verona," which re ived a characteriet'" ce setting from Sir Henry Bishop, and is consp i c uous fort ba delicious air, " Bid me discourse," was produc ed en Sanr; day, and met with a brilliant reception ; and a ll these iten` in the ... meg> interesting programme are in addition to the aa' , ` Wives of Windsor," which Otto Nicolai has raini°t,ll: foundation of an opera, and of which a very striking ,"; tion is the result. These musical offerings are certain?, more thoroughly Shaksperean than som e of the draros t a i; attempts to mark the occasion, and the arrangeraento are certainly not marred by any bickerings between the pers_ios; who figure in commemoration. At th e Canterbury lt. the prolific Mr. Vandervell furni , hes Mr. Morton V it o ; piece de circonstance (pardon us, dea r Shade!) aid christens it "Te Tercentenary, or a Night With spere," and,with ht he aid of the famous Ghost eftacts, brings a multitude of t hakspere's characters before the eyo• r , r also, th© "words of Shaksp're" extensively dot the P gramme, and are conned over with loyal e.gersess e thusiastio audiences.